Anne N. Mouse: Blog

The author of this fine story: https://storiesonline.net/s/66338/carrying-on note that it is posted here, seems to be among the missing. There is no way to contact him and the story he had in progress has been in hiatus almost as long as Helluva....

Personally things are moving slowly for me as far as my personal life goes. I am making slow progress on the automobile front (really recovery from stupid tax with lots of dollar signs on it) and getting to a point where I can live peaceably with my mother. The real issue seems that she wants me close enough to call on for help but not in her actual house. The second will not happen until I can afford one of two things: either a different travel trailer (and shelter for it that goes up before it comes in) or a shelter for the travel trailer I was sleeping in earlier this year. Neither is a very low price tag. The trailer I was sleeping in earlier this year is not movable... It has a slideout that cannot be moved back in without severely damaging the slide out or the gasket that keeps it watertight for now. I believe the gasket would disintegrate if we tried to move the slideout. So... not happening. Thus to put a shelter over the thing will probably require a forklift that can lift the pieces into position and a crew of at least myself and one other person plus I don't know if I can put up any sort of shelter for the thing without running afoul of the building codes... Which also applies to a shelter that might go up for any other trailer I might acquire.

With that personal report out of the way, it is my sad misfortune (as well as that of many here I imagine) to be watching the demise of ASSTR. For many years the place to go for a good sex story if you didn't go to SOL was ASSTR. ASSTR had a library that dwarfed the one at SOL, even after major parts of it began to disappear over the last year. For a while I thought perhaps it was a LEO operation that was messing with the site, but I think that if I were to have been running a LEO attack on the site I might have left it alone with various trackers in the background so that it acted as a honey pot. But now it seems to be gone, at least it looks that way to me. Then again, it has staggered along with major outages over the last couple of years and managed to come through with only some holes that a person in the know could navigate around... I do hope that ASSTR continues, but don't have much hope.

Of a sort. The place where I'm working had me on evaluation from a temp service. So this Wednesday they handed me an application to work for them rather than the temp agency. As noted that is somewhat good news, but I hope that I can find something a bit better (as far as pay and labor intensity goes) in the near future. I fear though that the only jobs I'll ever get are the type that take a dull mind and a strong back....
Also on the good news side is that if I wanted to show off a sixpack, I definitely have one... I kidded one of the tie-up crew that as long as he worked at tie-up it was easy to stay in shape and look like you'd been hitting the gym regularly...
For a while I was working as the clean-up kid, which meant that I was sweeping the floor and picking the trim up and loading it into a 'barrow' or buggy that is about 30" deep by 36" wide by close to 72" long then wheeling the load to the hog belt where I dumped the load on the belt to be dumped in the hog...
Of course nothing ever being straight forward, the hog belt had a tendency to 'plug up' (that is that it has a couple of places where the side of the chute has been repaired or some new piece has been put in that catches the wood as it goes by and proceeds to swing a piece across the belt to form a dam. Which means I got to work on the ladder master (up and down vertically) no less than two steps and as many as six steps to various cat walks to break up the jam or beat the shit into the hog with a 6' piece of 1 1/4"*2"... Lots of hard work to say the least. But like I said, I can see definition in all my muscles now... of course even at rest the veins in my hands are popped out as if I were working out!

Now that I have that off my chest I must say that for the most part that I'm doing fairly well. Though you might ask if that is a stick in my pocket... Hey it's sticking out of my back pocket, you ought to be able to see that it <u>is</> a stick.

What do I have a stick in my pocket for? Well to be honest for most of the day it is hanging from my right wrist by a loop of cord. I use it to pull the knots that I make in the lines to tie the bundles of molding tight. I also wear a knife on my left pinky finger and have managed to wear a hole in my skin at the base of my finger due to using that knife... Yeah I tie that many knots and cut that many lines in a day....
Ah well, 'tis better than starving to death....

Picky about punctuation? I suppose I am. After all, nothing can stop me from reading a story faster than a misplaced (or missing) apostrophe.

Thus, I wonder if I may be too picky for the amateur work that is presented at SOL. Then I read stories such as are in my favorites list and I wonder why everyone doesn't take a clue from them and really bear down on not making such errors?

Of course, I've read over some of my stuff and found horrid errors that are going to remain for a while. It isn't that they don't embarrass me, so much as I have limited access to the web and use it for reading and other things rather than editing my previous posts. However if anyone wants a copy of my files to play with (as far as editing goes)I'll respond with an e-mail address and send them along.

Oh, no promises that I'll accept all your recommendations, but they will get serious consideration!